Wooden dish



(No Model.)

W. D.,JOHNSON.

WOODEN DISH. No. 403,111. Patented May 14, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM D. JOHNSON, OF SEYMOUR, INDIANA.

WOODEN DISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,111, dated May 14, 1889.

Application filed March 6, 1889- Serial No. 302,089. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM D. J OHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seymour, in the county of Jackson and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in WVooden Dishes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in thin wooden dishes, which are cut or scooped out of a block of wood at one stroke of a knife or cutter. The dish is substantially concavoconvex in form, the ends, however, being constructed with a peculiar extension and curvature of the fibers of the wood to produce ears or handles, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved dish, the wave-lines illustrating the grainof the wood. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section through the line 3 3.

In the ordinary manufacture of this class of dishes they are cut from the face of a block of wood, across the grain, by means of a rapidly-moving knife or cutter, and are made segmental in cross-section. This form of dish is objectionable, not only because it has no handles or points whereby it may be lifted or moved, especially when full, but also because the wood is apt to chip off or split at the ends when the dish becomes dry or warped.

Like letters of reference indicate identical parts in the different figures.

I have found that by extending the ends of a dish, as shown at A A, in the form of ears, which themselves are separately and inde pendently concavo-convex, by reason of the outward curve at B, and the further sharp upward curve at O, the fibers of the wood are braced against one another and two distinct little bowls are formed at either end. These little bowls or cars are very convenient, of course, in handling the dish when it is full; but, in addition to that, they have a peculiar effect upon the fibers of the wood, and serve to brace and support them, thus preventing the dish from warping out of shape and preventing the wood from chipping oif.

I am aware that it is not new to make dishes of various materials with ears integral with the dish itself for the purpose of handles; but, Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1s- 1 A thin wooden dish scooped from a block of wood in concavo-conveX form, with end extensions or cars formed by the outward curve, B, and upward curve, C, for bracing the fibers and preventing warping and chipping, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WILLIAM D. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

CHARLES A. THOMPSON, E. G. RUNYAN. 

